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...These modern-day pirates can be as industrious as those who roamed the Spanish Main. Some are calling phone numbers, where computers will tell them how to copy programs. One on New York's Long Island calls itself Pirate's Cove, while another in Boston is Pirate's Newbor. Other computer users are buying code-cracking programs like Locksmith, which sells for $99.95 from Chicago's Omega MicroWare. Locksmith cracks the coding schemes for most Apple Computer programs and permits them to be copied. Hardcore Computing, a small magazine in Tacoma, Wash., warns pirates about...
...that analysis of Gaddafi is sound, the desert denizen who sees himself as the slighted messiah of a scorned nation may have launched a frightful new era in modern-day terrorism. To be sure, the 20th century does not lack for examples of political murder. But the threat of assassination of a head of government may now have been elevated by Gaddafi, in an era of worldwide terrorism, to a conscious act of statecraft by a sovereign nation. "For years after World War II, heads of state were considered off-limits to assassination teams," observes Paul Wilkinson, professor of international...
...author of eight critically acclaimed books concerned with social and scientific dilemmas; of leukemia; in New York City. Lang's best-known works were Casualties of War (1969), about the rape-killing of a young Vietnamese woman by American soldiers, and A Backward Look: Germans Remember (1978), on modern-day...
These are the modern-day mongrels of the range. They bear little kinship with the untamed steeds of frontier America, which traced their lineage to the 16th century ponies of the conquistadors. These are the great nephews and cousins, long inbred, many of them descended from domesticated animals turned loose in the 1930's, when forage was scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The usual parade of Mercedes-Benz limousines rolled up outside the swank Inter-continental Hotel in Geneva, where they were met by a cordon of gray leather-jacketed Swiss police and platoons of reporters and photographers. Inside, the oil ministers lived like the modern-day kings they have become. They dined on sumptuous meals that included filet de truite fumée, poussin de Bresse aux morilles and coeur de Charolais róti aux herbes...